We would need to look at the electron, and ask, is the electron equal to the being working "through" it, just as we think that the human body is equal to the being that inhabit it. This would then equate to transposing a view born within a materialistic worldview, into the sub-atomic realms themselves. Or should we indeed distinguish the electron from the being.
To equate the body with the being inhabiting it, is the result of a faulty observation. It is the result from a focusing solely on what the senses as such perceive, and on mistakenly believing that only what "can be touched" is real. Hereby what actually comes to such a conclusion, namely thinking, and the entire inner world in which such thinking happens, together with its content, is not seen "as such", and, compared to the sense-world which is "tangible", measurable etc, is labeled as a mere reflection, a chemical reflection, thus explained and translated in terms of sense-perceptible realities.
The specificities of the non-senseworld is discarded, first as "subjective", then is mere illusion. When Kant "proved" that human sense perception is subjective, by using the analogy of the bucket, one with cold, the other medium low water, and that by putting the hand first in the cold water, then in the lukewarm water, the lukewarm water seemed hot, proving hereby the subjective nature of the human being, he didn't realize (or did he) that he did so, based on an exception, and not on the general fact that senses function "objectively" enough, to allow humanity to come that far throughout their history.
He makes thus the exception into the rule -as so often happens- and makes a general rule of it. This is like a magical trick, making a dove appear from a hat. It is a substitution of reality, by an anti-thesis of reality. It become however one of the hinges on which the modern reductionist view has switched over a direct and serious handling of the senses and their functioning as such. While no longer taking the (now called "subjective") senses seriously, the measuring instruments themselves start functioning as "senses". Humanity hereby elaborates a worldview, through massive research and data, without noticing that it can only do so, through thinking which it has previously dubbed as "subjective" and basically unreal -a mere bio-electric reality. And no longer noticing thinking as an element of reality, needed to elaborate, for instance, reality as it is and transform it into the man-made world, thinking becomes void as it were, of the active perceptive "I" that inhabits it. Sense-perception itself, and the perceived world receives hereby an explanation, void of its spiritual content and reality, which an otherwise awake and subtly perceiving I would notice, if made attentive to the subtle nature of reality.
It is only by labeling reality as:
- tangible = real
- "intangible" = unreal,
that the illusion can be maintained.
But a more "subtle" observation of the senses themselves, as well as what happens when the senses are used, it is to say, everything that is involved "in their functioning", reveals that, compared to a digital translation of sense-perception, sense-perception itself "full" of higher world's manifestations. It is only because the sense are no longer "taken seriously" that this is not seen. But the difference between a sense-perception mediated by the senses, and a say digital image, when both are compared, shows the stark contrast between these two, where the digital image indeed appears lacking all the "life" a real sense-perception has.